Nestle UK has opened the Tutbury coffee production factory following a £325m ($462m) investment.
The factory, which is located in Tutbury in Derbyshire, now features all forms of coffee production including freeze dried, spray dried, and pod technology.
The facility currently employs 1000 local people in manufacturing and engineering works, along with 23 apprentices and nine graduates. Following the investment, 425 additional jobs have been created.
In 2015, the Tutbury site produced over 1.8 billion Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee capsules, of which 85% were exported to 70 international markets including Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the US.
The facility's opening follows the launch of Nestlé UK's insights into addressing the productivity. The company's "Productivity in Practice" offers a series of insights which provide links between productivity gains through new technology investments and sustained improvements by the company's employees at all levels.
Nestle UK and Ireland chairman and CEO Dame Fiona Kendrick said: "We are taking the UK's productivity challenge incredibly seriously at Nestlé and this investment has made Tutbury one of our best examples of that. We have made processes more efficient, given our employees new skills and equipped them with state-of-the-art machinery with which to do their job."
The factory was inaugurated by the Secretary of State for business, innovation and skills Sajid Javid.
On the occasion he said: "Today I'm pleased to be opening Nestlé's new and improved factory following its impressive £325 million investment. This will create 425 new jobs, powering our national economy and supporting the local community."
The Tutbury factory was built in 1901 to produce condensed milk. The plant was transformed in 1959 when it began manufacturing Nescafe soluble coffee.
In the past five years, Nestle has invested £100m in the factory in order to strengthen its position as the company's leading production facility manufacturing a range of beverages and Nescafe Dolce Gusto brand of coffee, milk and chocolate drinks in portions and capsules.
In 2011, the company invested £110m in the Tutbury factory for the expansion of Nescafé Dolce Gusto manufacturing facility to expand production capacity and create 300 new jobs.
In 2012, Nestlé added further investment in the modern freeze drying plant at the site, thereby consolidating freeze dried, spray dried and warehousing activities at one site, and bringing the total investment in the site to £325m.
